COLUMN: 02-21-2007

The US Supreme Court's ruling that there should be no federal judicial review of the status of Guantanamo Bay detainees is absolutely the wrong message to send, both to America and to the rest of the world. If America is truly to be held as a beacon of freedom and democracy, then the rule of law must be held above all else and allowing the federal government to declare whoever they want as an enemy combatant who can be put outside the reach of the judiciary by moving them to an island 90 miles off the Florida coast is the first major step in turning our country into a police state where laws are meaningless.